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Lost a hatchling

I was not quite sure where to put this thread, so thought here might be best.

I did something very stupid.

I have one of the small heat/cool type refrigerators for my incubator. This is the one that Matt sells here.
Well, we were going to be arranging the reptile room on Sunday, so on Saturday I was getting ready and moved the incubator to a lower shelf and placed all my sterlite tubs with my hatchlings next to it. NEVER realizing that the box that is attached to the power cord was pushed against the wall. Well, evidently that box had no circulation and it got very hot. The baby that was in the tub next to it was dead on Sunday!

I did not realize the danger about the babies being next to it until after we moved everything. My husband moved the incubator and made mention of how very hot the small box was. It was not until a couple hours after that when I was placing babies in their new location I found my one baby dead.

So just a word of caution, when using this fridge, make sure the small box that is attached to the power cord has plenty of free space around it. Or it can get too hot and cause damage.

I was so sad. I had never lost a baby once it was out of the egg....it just had me so mad at myself for being so stupid. RIP little one....

im sorry Cindy, I know those types of little boxes can get hot, the one for my latop gets seriously hot so I cant imagine how hot the incubator one got being it is running atll the time. Poor little baby. A tough lesson learned for something that wasnt intended.